TROUBLES OF JAPAN

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22467, 30 July 1938, Page 15

TROUBLES OF JAPAN

British Warning Endorsed

MANY POINTS OP DANGER

Third Parties Not To Be Thwarted

(TOTTED PEES 3 ASSOCIATION—COPTSIGHT.) (Received July 29, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 28. Coinciding with the warning of Lord Halifax (Foreign Secretary) to Japan, "The Times,” in a leading article, says: “Japan’s position is such that she cannot safely continue indefinitely to flout the interests of third parties. There are the internal trouble in Manchuria, the tension on the Russian frontier, and the economic barrier. At home persists a slow and inevitable decline, which no predictable development can arrest within the next few years, “Japan’s threats to Britain are partly accidental, partly instinctive, and partly deliberate. Lord Halifax’s warning was timely.”

RESENTMENT IN JAPAN

CONFLICT NOT TO BE ENDED BY THREAT (Received July 30, 12.30 a.m.) TOKYO, July 29. A Japanese Foreign Office spokesman said to-day that the Japanese public was justifiably indignant concerning the threatening antiJapanese tone in the debate on China in the House of Commons. The theory that a threat of force would stop the conflict showed a lack of knowledge, both of the situation and of Japanese psychology. ADVANCE TO HANKOW CHINESE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE (Received July 29, 7.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, July 29. While the Japanese are steadily advancing along the Yangtse to Hankow, the Chinese have launched a counter-offensive on the Lunghai railway, with the object of diverting the Japanese pressure. They claim to have crossed the flood waters of the Yellow river and reached Kaifeng, the capital of Honan. Other Chinese troops, which were driven from Kiukiang, have taken up new positions, and have been strongly reinforced from the rear. Terrorist activity is spreading. JAPANESE OFFENSIVE (Received July 30, 12.30 a.m.) HANKOW, July 29. The Japanese have launched along the north bank of the Yangtse a new drive toward Hankow. Three columns are aiming at Taihu, a town of strategic importance, 40 miles north of the river.